Source code for ddev.com

The static site for DDEV, built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, and hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

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Project Structure

The layout follows Astro’s project structure. The parts specific to this site:

• cache/ – GitHub API responses cached during local development, to reduce API calls.
• public/ – images, logos, and redirects, copied as they are into dist/.
• src/content/ – Markdown for the blog posts and authors, validated by the content collections schemas in src/content.config.ts.
• src/pages/ – .astro and .mdx pages whose filenames become routes.
• src/layouts/ – Layout.astro, used by every page, and MarkdownLayout.astro, used by the .mdx pages.
• src/lib/ – GitHub API fetching, the search index, and the remark and rehype plugins for blog Markdown.
• src/featured-sponsors.json – the featured sponsors, see Sponsor Management.

Development

DDEV Setup

DDEV includes all the dependencies.

1. Run ddev start. It installs dependencies and starts the dev server.
2. Open https://<projectname>.ddev.site:4321. The dev server reloads as you edit.

Command	Action
ddev npm run build	Build the production site to dist/, served at https://<projectname>.ddev.site
ddev prettier [file]	Fix formatting of the whole tree, or of the given files
ddev textlint [file]	Fix wording in src/content/**, or in the given files, then report what is left
ddev logs	Dev server output, for troubleshooting

Run ddev prettier and ddev textlint before committing. CI runs the same checks.

Setup Without DDEV

1. Run nvm use to use the Node.js version in .nvmrc.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run npm run dev, and open http://localhost:4321/. If it fails, run npm cache clean --force && npm install && npm run dev.

npm run build builds to dist/, and npm run preview serves the build. npm run prettier:fix and npm run textlint:fix && npm run textlint replace the DDEV commands above.

When switching from this setup to DDEV, delete node_modules/ and run ddev npm install, since the two architectures can conflict.

GitHub Token

Not needed to contribute a blog post. Contributors, sponsors, releases, and other DDEV data come from the GitHub API; without a token, sponsorship data falls back to sample data. To use the real data:

1. Run cp .env.example .env. Don’t commit .env.
2. Create a classic GitHub access token with the scopes repo, read:org, read:user, and read:project.
3. Paste the token after GITHUB_TOKEN= in .env.

Editor Setup

.editorconfig and .prettierrc hold the formatting rules. VS Code suggests the extensions in .vscode/extensions.json (Prettier, EditorConfig, Astro), and .vscode/settings.json formats on save.

Managing Content

Blog Posts

Blog posts are Markdown files in src/content/blog/, named with a kebab-case slug, for example my-new-post.md. For callouts, code blocks, images, and other features, see MARKDOWN_FORMATTING.md. Use this frontmatter:

---
title: "It’s A Post!"
pubDate: 2026-01-01
modifiedDate: 2026-01-03
modifiedComment: "This got updated"
summary:
author: Randy Fay
featureImage:
  src: /img/blog/2026/01/kebab-case.jpg
  srcDark:
  alt:
  caption:
  credit:
categories:
  - DevOps
---

• author must match the name of an author in src/content/authors/. Add one there for a new author.
• Write descriptive alt text for the feature image. caption and credit can use Markdown, wrapped in straight quotes (").
• Choose categories from allowedCategories in src/content.config.ts. The first one shows on post cards: Add-ons, Announcements (releases, organization news), Community (events, third-party developments), DevOps (workflows, infrastructure), Performance (benchmarks, tips), Guides (how-to posts), Newsletters, TechNotes (code-level discussions), Training (contributor training), Videos.
• Put images in public/img/blog/YYYY/MM/. The build converts PNG, JPEG, and GIF images to WebP, but the source files are committed as they are, so keep them under 2MB and no wider than about 2000px. ImageOptim applies lossless compression.

Blog comments use giscus.

Pages

Add a .astro or .mdx file to src/pages/, and its name becomes the URL. Reuse the layout and components of an existing page. For generated pages, see src/pages/blog/[page].astro, src/pages/blog/category/[slug].astro, and src/pages/blog/author/[id].astro.

Textlint

.textlintrc checks src/content/** for terminology and stop words, using textlint’s default terminology with a few overrides, such as allowing “website”, “front end”, and “command line”.

Sponsor Management

src/featured-sponsors.json lists the featured sponsors shown on the home page and in the light and dark badges generated for the main DDEV README. To add one, follow .claude/skills/add-sponsor/SKILL.md, or ask Claude Code to add the sponsor’s website.

Redirects and Short Links

Add redirects to public/_redirects. They can point to pages on the site, the DDEV docs, or external resources.

• Most redirects should be 301, a permanent redirect.
• Prefix short links with /s, for example /s/port-conflict.

Build and Deployment

• GitHub Actions runs the test workflow on every push to main and every pull request.
• Cloudflare Pages runs npm run build on every push to main and deploys dist/. It also builds a preview for each branch and comments the URL on its PR. Pull requests from forks get previews from GitHub Actions instead, see FORK_PREVIEW_SETUP.md.

Secrets

The site uses Octokit for GitHub REST and GraphQL requests, which need a token to authenticate and to stay within quota. GitHub Actions supplies its own GITHUB_TOKEN. Anywhere else, including local development and Cloudflare, set GITHUB_TOKEN to a classic personal access token with the scopes listed under GitHub Token.

Resources

• Astro documentation
• Astro Discord server